ferguson

I saw Dunbar’s Mask in reverse: black journalists don’t choose the news anymore than the rest of us.

A straight face can be hard to come by when talking about black protesters, majority-white police departments, and efforts at community relations.

He imagined the press bulletin:Terribly sorry about how we reactedto how you reactedwhen we shot and killed that kid.

This is not a justification. I believe in stoicism where the news is concerned.

But let’s give the newsman his due. He kept it together until he couldn’t, till it started to crust and sugar over.

And there, nearly imperceptible at the corners of his mouth, glass breaking in the night.

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Daniel Muro LaMere is a teacher and writer from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He writes about music at thisistheshuffler.wordpress.com.

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